DT is not installed from data.table

[kcharniga]

Using the following code, one of the functions from data.table (DT) is not being installed, and therefore the vignette does not run:

library(devtools) install_github("parksw3/dynamicaltruncation")

When running this line:

secondary_dist <- data.table( meanlog = 1.8, sdlog = 0.5) |> add_natural_scale_mean_sd()

the error is:

Error: 'DT' is not an exported object from 'namespace:data.table'

[parksw3]

You have to run data.table::update_dev_pkg() to install the latest version.

[seabbs]

Thanks for flagging this @kcharniga. As @parksw3 says we are depending on the development version of data.table but not making that very clear. I think the more stable way to get users to install this is likely by using the GitHub repository (as we can specify this in the DESCRIPTION vs requiring users to run another function). Will close this once this is updated and checked.

[seabbs]

Added the development version of data.table from GitHub to the REMOTES section of the DESCRIPTION. Note this means that this version is transcient and data.table could in theory introduce breaking changes. As a package though it tends to be fairly stable so this is unlikely and once they release their latest version we can update to depend on the CRAN version (and going forward in any "production" ready version of this package.

See: 4ba6e2036d6b2ba4136af61286a1cf62269cf8cf